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Also all the sound stuff was outsourced! id hired Bobby Prince to make the music and licensed a playback library which seemed to have enough problems already wi
by andrewf 10mo ago
Also all the sound stuff was outsourced! id hired Bobby Prince to make the music and licensed a playback library which seemed to have enough problems already with the supported sound cards. https://doomwiki.org/wiki/DMX https://doomwiki.org/wiki/DMX
So they'd have had to extract this feature from a vendor where the relationship is already breaking down, or ditch it all and start from scratch with a new vendor, or inhouse code.
- antonvs 10mo agoOn top of that, the claim in the post seems to be based on the Linux Doom architecture, which has a separate sound service that didn’t exist in the original DOS version. This is just someone cosplaying early 1990s development with the benefit of decades of subsequent OS and software design.